Willie Wheeler is a Principal Applications Engineer at Expedia, with 20 years of professional software development experience. His focus over the past several years has been in tools development for both continuous delivery and operations. Additionally Willie enjoys applying machine learning techniques in the operational monitoring domain.
At Expedia Willie serves as a resiliency champion within the engineering organization. Prior to Expedia, he led software development teams in the education industry.

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Talk:
Expedia’s Journey Toward Site Resiliency

Those coming from product-driven organizations—where product features are often prioritized over resiliency-related concerns—will understand how challenging it can be to convince teams to do resiliency work. In this presentation we’ll share Expedia’s resiliency journey, starting with resiliency as an afterthought and progressing toward resiliency as a first-class concern. Attendees will learn about the importance of partnering with the teams experiencing operational struggles, and equipping them with the data to make the right investments at the right time.

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